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Tag Archives: Science
Taking a break from writing about fictional spaceships….
…here are some photos, from a NASA FLickr stream, of an actual real spaceship launch. Specifically, the Antares rocket, developed by a private company. I think that the human future in space will depend in great part on private enterprise, … Continue reading
But when we have warp drive, it’ll be a snap!
Visualizations that help convey the non-human scale of distances in space are always nice, but even so, they never really make it totally clear. I just don’t think the human brain is wired to conceive of these kinds of distances. … Continue reading
So you’re going to be a spaceman!
When I was a kid, my dream was to be an astronaut. Not terribly unique, as kids dreams went, in my generation. The space program had lost a bit of its momentum in the mid-1970s, but the moon landings were … Continue reading
This situation is out of control. It is out of control, and we’ll be lucky to live through it.
Meteors in Russia. This is how it starts, folks. Someone’s just drivin’ along, and then, from the sky…. Or, after that thing has zoomed overhead, some other Russian dudes are standing around gawking at the contrail the object left…when, about … Continue reading
Carl! Carl! Carl!
Today is Carl Sagan’s birthday. He will forever be one of my greatest heroes.
A fine ship
Farewell, Endeavour. Surely another ship will one day bear your name; may she sail as faithfully and true!
“The Martians will be us.”
Images of Mars-fall: If we were to cut our defense budget by, say, a third, and instead of using that money for tax cuts we were to put every penny of it into our budget for space exploration, I think … Continue reading
When I am Lord of the Planet, this fellow shall be my Science Advisor.
A few weeks ago, Kevin Drum had a post (yes, I am too lazy to track down the link) in which he indicated that he just doesn’t think the evolution-versus-creationism “debate” is that big a deal, and his reasons basically … Continue reading
Images from the Transit
The recent transit of Venus over the Sun yielded some amazing images. Here are some of them, from the Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center’s Flickr stream (which is, incidentally, one of my favorite Flickr streams). That last one is amazing…it’s … Continue reading
From the Books: “Coming of Age in the Milky Way”
Last night saw a rare, and spectacular, astronomical event: the transit of Venus across the Sun. There were many amazing pictures from this event, and Phil Plait provided some terrific coverage. The event reminded me, specifically, of a passage from … Continue reading